bonfire

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n. 大篝火, 营火

发音

/ˈbɒnfaɪəɹ/
/ˈbɒɱˌfaɪ̯ɚ/
UK /ˈbɒnfaɪə/
US /ˈbɑnˌfaɪɚ/
US /ˈb̥ɒ̃ɱfaɛ̯ɚ/

词形变化

bonfires 复数 bonfires bonfiring bonfired bonfires 三单 bonfiring 现在分词 bonfired 过去式 bonfired 过去分词

别名

burnfire bonefire boanefier bonefier beane fyre bon-fier bonfyer bone fyre bon-fire

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.

    篝火

  2. 2.

    A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.

    篝火

  3. 3.

    Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.

    比喻
  4. 4.

    A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.

    废旧
v.
  1. 1.

    To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.

    及物 化学 工程
  3. 3.

    To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.

    废旧 及物
  4. 4.

    To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.

    不及物 罕用

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

balefire

上位词 1

fire

相关短语

Bonfire Night （英）篝火之夜（11月5日） bonfire society bonfire societies bonfire boy bonfire boys bonfire toffee bonfire of the vanities Bonfire Island bonfire tree piss on someone's bonfire pisses on someone's bonfire pissing on someone's bonfire pissed on someone's bonfire

词源

PIE word *péh₂wr̥ From Middle English bonnefyre (“a fire in which bones are burnt, bonfire”) [and other forms], by surface analysis, bone + fire. Replaced earlier Middle English bale-fyre, from Old English bǣlfȳr (see balefire). The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) notes that bonfires, originally lit as part of midsummer celebrations, were not generally associated with the burning of bones. However, the first edition of the OED (under the title A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1887) stated that “for the annual midsummer ‘banefire’ or ‘bonfire’ in the burgh of Hawick [in Roxburghshire, Scotland], old bones were regularly collected and stored up, down to c. 1800”. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognate with Scots banefire (“bonfire”).

来源：wiktionary